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Ednah Cheney, a key figure in the Free Religious Association, was part of the second generation of Transcendentalism who worked to keep Transcendentalist ideas alive and evolving. She was also a writer who wrote a noted biography of Louisa May Alcott.
Biography, General:
- From F. B. Sanborn, Recollections of Seventy Years - a short entry from January 15, 1848
- Letter from Harriet Jacobs to Ednah Dow Cheney - April 25, 1867
- Picture From Louisa May Alcott, The Children's Friend by Ednah D. Cheney
- Dykeman, Therese Boos, American Women Philosophers, 1650 - 1930: Six Exemplary Thinkers - information about a book that includes Ednah Cheney with Anne Bradstreet, Mercy Otis Warren, Mary Whiton Calkins, Judith Sargent Murray and Frances Wright.
- Philosophy at Concord - Cheney taught at the Summer School of Philosophy in 1879 and 1880, with Bronson Alcott, T. Wentworth Higginson, F. B. Sanborn, Julia Ward Howe and others, presenting two lectures on "Art" in 1880.
Bibliography:
- The Child of the Tide, Ednah D. Cheney (1875?).
- Selected Poems from Michelangelo Buonarotti, with translations from various sources, ed. by Ednah D. Cheney (1885?).
- Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals, ed. by Ednah D. Cheney (1889, reprinted 1966). (contemporary review, short contemporary notice)
- Norah's Return: a sequel to The Doll's House, Ednah D. Cheney (1890). (contemporary review)
- Mention of the privately-distributed memoir of her husband, Seth Cheney
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